Polyglot Bible: Proverbs: Proverbs 9

This is a comparative scripture text presenting Proverbs 9:1–18 in four parallel versions: the King James Version (with Strong's Concordance reference numbers interleaved), the Septuagint (ancient Greek), the Tanakh (Hebrew), and the Latin Vulgate. The chapter's central content is a dramatic contrast between two personified figures — Lady Wisdom and Lady Folly — who both call out from the high places of a city to invite the simple and uninstructed to enter their houses. Wisdom slaughters animals, mixes wine, and sets a table, urging her guests to eat, drink, and "go in the way of understanding," while the middle section delivers aphoristic teaching: reproof is wasted on a scorner but welcomed by the wise, and "the fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom." Lady Folly mirrors Wisdom's invitation almost word-for-word but offers instead "stolen waters" and secret bread — pleasures that seem sweet but conceal the fact that her guests descend into Sheol. The Septuagint version is notably expansive at verse 12, adding material about a man who "herds the winds" and wanders a waterless desert, content not found in the Hebrew, making it a useful witness to divergence between the Greek and Masoretic traditions. This layout is a tool for comparative textual study rather than devotional reading, suited to someone examining how translators across traditions handled a single Hebrew poetic passage.

Polyglot Bible: Proverbs: Proverbs 9

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